marie : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly
  

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Bain`-ma`rie" noun

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F.

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1. A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

Webster 1913

• noun a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs; progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span; inheritance is X-linked recessive or X-linked dominant
  hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy.
  

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• noun French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)
  Charles de Gaulle; de Gaulle; General de Gaulle; General Charles de Gaulle.
  

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• noun United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
  Evert; Chrissie Evert; Chris Evert.
  

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• noun French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837)
  Charles Fourier; Fourier.
  

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• noun French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996)
  Mitterrand; Francois Mitterrand.
  

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• noun French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
  Arouet; Voltaire.
  

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• noun French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study
  Auguste Comte; Comte.
  

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• noun French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
  Jacquard; Joseph M. Jacquard.
  

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• noun French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793)
  Corday; Charlotte Corday.
  

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• noun queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
  

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• noun birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
  Stopes; Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.
  

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• noun French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
  Curie; Madame Curie; Marya Sklodowska.
  

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• noun Irish dancer (1818-1861)
  Montez; Lola Montez.
  

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• noun United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972)
  Mayer.
  

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• noun French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
  Marie Grosholtz; Madame Tussaud; Tussaud.
  

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• noun French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842)
  Stendhal.
  

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• noun French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
  Condorcet; Marquis de Condorcet.
  

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• noun courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
  Du Barry; Comtesse Du Barry.
  

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• noun French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
  La Fayette; Marquis de Lafayette; Lafayette.
  

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• noun French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842)
  Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun; Vigee-Lebrun.
  

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• noun birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
  Stopes; Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.
  

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• noun French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
  Marie Grosholtz; Madame Tussaud; Tussaud.
  

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• noun a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis
  ankylosing spondylitis; rheumatoid spondylitis.
  

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• noun French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794)
  Robespierre.
  

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• noun a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan
  

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• noun French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
  Lesseps; Ferdinand de Lesseps.
  

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• noun French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
  Victor Hugo; Hugo.
  

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